UNEX Unexplained Noises Shake Clintonville, WI - Louder and Stronger Than Before!

WisconsinGardener

Loony Member
On the local news, they broadcast part of the official press conference/public info session that happened right at news time. They are saying it was an earthquake swarm - felt so strongly because they were very shallow and because our rock transmits well.
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
On the local news, they broadcast part of the official press conference/public info session that happened right at news time. They are saying it was an earthquake swarm - felt so strongly because they were very shallow and because our rock transmits well.

I'd be wondering what's coming in the next few weeks/months.
 

Frugal Bob

Veteran Member
The USGS is now reporting the eq, but just one not a swarm this was not there till today???? One EQ and a bunch of boom, something is not adding up here.

I was living Spokane Washington back in 2001 and we did have a swarm of mic eq's at about a mile down but the booms always happened at the time of each eq so you heard and felt them. But a bunch of booms and one eq ...:rolleyes: right.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/booms.php

But then booms were said to have occurred before or during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.
 
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Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
Wasn't there an EQ somewhere in WI earlier this year or the end of last year?

I can't find it, but I thought there was one.

Anyone with a better memory than mine remember?
 

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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I don't know how one little pipsqueak 1.5 EQ, dug out of the bowels of obscurity, has anything to do with four days of loud bags and strong vibrations.

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Situation Report - Earthquake
Situation Report 0,
3/22/2012

This afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported that a 1.5 magnitude earthquake struck early Tuesday morning in Clintonville. The earthquake struck shortly after midnight. Officials with the USGS say loud booming noises have been known to accompany earthquakes and it is possible the strange sounds residents have been reporting at night might be related to the earthquake.

Wisconsin Emergency Management has been working with Waupaca County Emergency Management Director Andrew Carlin and other local officials in regards to the strange booming noises that have occurred this week.

According to Tom Evans, Assistant Director with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNHS), Wisconsin has experienced about a dozen minor events attributed to low seismic activities in the last 100 years. He says Wisconsin sits on a relatively stable part of the continent. Details about the earthquake are available at the USGS website, http://earthquake.usgs.gov

http://emergencymanagement.wi.gov/
 

WisconsinGardener

Loony Member
If I understood the speaker at the press conference correctly, they can prove one definite earthquake at one specific time because they had access to 8 monitors at the time of that quake. They interpolate from that that there were other earthquakes, undetected by monitors - that there was actually a swarm of earthquakes, initially undetected because there was no close monitoring of the area around Clintonville when they happened.
 

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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Montello, WI joins the party .....

Fair use Cited

Montello community reports mysterious booms

Posted on: 7:26 am, March 22, 2012, by Trisha Bee, updated on: 05:58pm, March 22, 2012

MONTELLO — For the past week the Clintonville community has reported unusual ground shaking and booms, now residents in the Montello community are reporting similar booms and shaking. Montello residents say they had no idea the mysterious noises were also occurring in Clintonville.

A loud rumble occurred around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday night in Montello triggering calls to the Montello Police Department. “There was a loud boom and all the windows shook. The whole house shook,” a Montello resident said.

One resident even described the booms as a really bad train wreck, all the cars slamming into each other at once, right where you’re standing.

The police chief is still trying to make sense of the booms and shakes. “We are currently investigating it. We don’t have an answer at this point. We’ve obviously checked with our typical sources such as utility companies and anybody that may be drilling or doing construction in the area. At this point in time we don’t know what it is,” Montello Police Chief Richard Olson said.

http://fox6now.com/2012/03/22/montello-community-reports-mysterious-booms/
 

Publius

On TB every waking moment
I read some people in other parts of the country are having whiffs of sulfur on the wind, anyone else?
 

kiwiapsa

Contributing Member
I live in Grand Rapids Michigan and I don't like the looks of that map on post 183. On March 13 of last year I posted the following on this board about a dream I had. It was in response to something Countrymouse had written and stated: "Countrymouse, I live in West Michigan about 30 miles inland from Lake Michigan. About 5 years ago I had a most vivid dream of looking to the west and seeing a large wall of water coming in our direction from the big lake. The water didn't quite reach me, but when first looking at it I was amazed that such a large wall could be coming from Lake Mich. That's about all I remember of the dream but it was so real and captivating that I often thought of it and realized the only way that could happen would be either a meteor or an earthquake. This is the first time ever sharing this with anyone, and I just have to wonder..."

I received a pm from fellow Michigander as follows: " Just wanted to confirm your dream about the wall of water coming from Lake Michigan. Just yesterday, no joke, my wife and I were talking about earthquakes and what would happen if the New Madrid Fault went off and if a tsunami would happen in Lake Michigan. So many people have had dreams about Lake Michigan draining into the Mississippi river after a great earthquake happened on the New Madrid. Makes one wonder... Soooo...I'm glad the water didn't reach you in your dream, which means it wouldn't reach us either. "

That dream has always made me very uneasy. My faith and assurance is in the righteousness of Christ so I know where I'm headed after this race is over, but there is that uncertainty over what may be headed our way.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
I've been dinking with the two maps, that WW posted, in Photoshop and created an overlay of the escarpment and the rift. I don't know how to post them here, I can email it to one of the mods if they want to give it a whirl. It may shed some light on a couple of things and... well seeing is believing.

K-
 

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
I've been dinking with the two maps, that WW posted, in Photoshop and created an overlay of the escarpment and the rift. I don't know how to post them here, I can email it to one of the mods if they want to give it a whirl. It may shed some light on a couple of things and... well seeing is believing.

K-

If it's saved as a jpeg file, you can post it. PM me & I'll tell you how I do mine---if I can figure this out, anybody can, because my kittycats are more techhie than I am! :lol:
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
I plotted (not exact since I'm doing it on a printed grid map) out the Birch Creek, MI ground fracture (loud Boom heard and felt at the time) from Oct. 2010, Clintonville and Montello, WI.

They form a nice curvature (along the same curvature of the Niagara Escarpment) just North and West of the escarpment, but between the escarpment and the rift.

Wouldn't that be logical if the escarpment acts as a point of resistance/barrier to any movement coming from the rift?


ETA: adding link to story about the Michigan fissure/crack in 2010

http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news...ke-caused-mysterious-crack-in-upper-peninsula
 
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LoupGarou

Ancient Fuzzball
So if this is indeed a quake then it started Sunday night? And is still happening? So they are having quake after quake? Albeit very 'micro', but still, a quake...

The booms, according to my contacts from VaTech, are the pressures building up on the plates. The small quakes that accompany them are the smaller faults slipping a bit and adding their stresses on the main faults.

And we have been having booms and moans tonight here. Just had one about 4 minutes before I typed this.

Something is up. I had a feeling that we would "have to pay" for all of those solar blasts hitting us.

Time will tell.

Loup
 

Bubble Head

Has No Life - Lives on TB
So your'e saying its coming right on the 188 day mark. Or as close as we can guess. We had some booms here in Southern Colorado over a week ago but nothing during this period other than I can't seem to settle down becuase I feel like something is coming. Could be gas.
The booms, according to my contacts from VaTech, are the pressures building up on the plates. The small quakes that accompany them are the smaller faults slipping a bit and adding their stresses on the main faults.

And we have been having booms and moans tonight here. Just had one about 4 minutes before I typed this.

Something is up. I had a feeling that we would "have to pay" for all of those solar blasts hitting us.

Time will tell.

Loup
 

Scotto

Set Apart
I put the following on a different forum about 6 months ago.
The past few weeks the "ground thunder" has really been bad again.

=====================================================

This may relate to all of the "ground thunder" we hear all the time.
Lots of people nearby have reported hearing it, so we're not just hearing crazy things. Sometimes we hear "popping" or "cracking" sounds coming from underground. At times we've thought it was maybe underground tunneling, but we're not so sure. This ground thunder or "booms" as we call it happens any hour of the day or night, doesn't matter if it's weekends or holidays. Sometimes it goes away for a week or two, then starts up again. It makes the neighbor's horses and cattle nervous as well.
Once in a great while we will feel a little tremor coming from a quake just North of Little Rock (Guy, AR), but not usually. Too many mountains between here and there.
We live in W AR, with the mountains and the Ouachita National Forest all around. VERY rocky area, I've got a rock partially exposed in my backyard, we can only see the top of it, and it's about the size of a Volkswagon. But it pops up here and there, doing a large basement around my yard would probably be impossible, unless blasting of this rock was involved. And if you follow my backyard down to the creek, in places this rocky area goes completely under the water and is the base of the creek. It covers an exposed area about the size of a basketball court. I told you all that in this paragraph as it makes the area where my house is built seem very stable. At least it should......
Last fall we noticed something odd in the hallway of our house. Their was a large gap between the wall and the ceiling, running about 15 feet down the hall. It was easy to see as there is corner moulding between the wall and the ceiling. The gap started out (or when we first noticed it) about 1/4" wide, but grew to over an inch in a couple month's time. It was alarming and distressing to say the least. I was in new home construction for years, and this house is only 28 years old and well built. One morning a month or so later I called my wife in there to show her something shocking - the gap was gone. The ceiling was now down on top of the wall so level, the the crack was even barely noticable.
All summer there was no change. And the booms almost seemed to stop. Well the booms started up pretty bad a couple weeks ago, darn near the same time that the quakes were being reported in Oklahoma. And last night I noticed - the crack is back, about 3/8" this time. However, now there is also a gap in my son's room and our master bedroom, and my wife is reporting "cracking sounds" in the wood (or something) in the opposite corner of our living room.
We are not alone in this, as the neighbors across the road have reported recent cracks in the blockwork of their home. And one homeowner in a town about 12 miles South of us reported the tremors, and that the water pipes outside her home keep getting pulled apart.

But.....this is not the most alarming part.

The ground outside is slowly moving. We started noticing this a few years ago, at first I wasn't sure if I was seeing things, but now I'm positive I'm not. It has moved WAY too much. The neighbor didn't notice it at first either, but now he sure has. What it appears to be doing actually, is sinking in places. Our lawn goes back about 175' behind our house, then we have a barbwire fence seperating a small field (large blackberry patch) before it hits a dirt ledge and drops down to the creek. The field always had a little downward pitch to it, before it dropped sharply down to the creek.
Our neighbor every couple years does us a favor and brush-hogs the berry patch down to ground level, as it kills off the small trees that pop up and is better for the berries to cut them back. When he did it a month ago and I walked back there, my jaw about hit the dirt. In the 160 feet or so from the barbwire to the ledge, the land has gone down at least SIX FEET. My neighbor almost rolled his tractor there, and he told me he didn't 'remember' it pitching like that. Well yeah. And it has sunk to the North and South of the house, though not as much. He noticed it on the North side last fall, when he backed his tractor up from setting off large bales of hay like he's done for years, and thought he sunk into the ground. I saw him get off the tractor, look at the ground and scratch his head. He also was looking at a large grandfather oak that is now leaning over at a bad angle.
I don't know what the heck is going on. In certain areas it could be underground tunneling, and the "booms" could be blasting the rock. But we are obviously VERY concerned. We moved here over 7 years ago, and if we compare some pics I took of the area from where we first bought here to recent pics of how the elevations have changed, whoa.
We had homeowners insurance thru Allstate, but we switched when we were told that they were dropping earthquake coverage. So at least we have coverage for that.
This is just so far out of the normal range of "stuff happens," that I'm at a loss.

And about a year and a half ago, our security light was out on the pole, about a 75' run from our main power pole. The elec. co. that maintains them came out to fix it, and he showed me that for some reason the ground between the poles swelled and bent the poles opposite of each other, and actually pulled the arial wires out of the connectors by stretching it taught, and that's why the light was out. He couldn't figure it out.
Since then that part of the ground returned to normal, and the arial wires aren't tight.

OK, I get that the ground can sink in places sometimes. Not hard to wrap my head around that.

But the fact that something tweaks my dang house, then tweaks it BACK is what is warping my mind. It moved the power poles out, stretched the wires taught - then went back.

WTF?

And it's *not* a humidity thing inside my house. The wall where the crack shows up is in the center of the home - a load-bearing wall.
 

rummer

Inactive
"I read some people in other parts of the country are having whiffs of sulfur on the wind, anyone else?"

Yes, Here in Michigan I will get the scent of sulfur and has been going on for quite a while.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
We smelled a sulfur smell oh about a month and a half ago, I thought it was the cities sewer and wasn't quite sure, it hung in the air for a couple of hours and was gone.

Here's the map overlay, I hope, it's not the best of overlays but then I'm not an expert with PS.
 

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Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
I plotted (not exact since I'm doing it on a printed grid map) out the Birch Creek, MI ground fracture (loud Boom heard and felt at the time) from Oct. 2010, Clintonville and Montello, WI.

They form a nice curvature (along the same curvature of the Niagara Escarpment) just North and West of the escarpment, but between the escarpment and the rift.

Wouldn't that be logical if the escarpment acts as a point of resistance/barrier to any movement coming from the rift?


ETA: adding link to story about the Michigan fissure/crack in 2010

http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news...ke-caused-mysterious-crack-in-upper-peninsula


I just thought of something---David Wilkerson's The Vision--

He mentions that he feels the Lord revealed to him that, sometime after another major earthquake somewhere in the world--and he specifically mentioned Japan as a possible location of this "major" earthquake---that there would be a "major earthquake" in the U.S.--and "not in a place usually known for earthquakes".

We all know and expect the San Andreas; we know and expect (though to a lesser extent) the New Madrid---

but who expects an earthquake in Michigan and Wisconsin--one big enough to so drop the ground down that the Great Lakes themselves empty? (not that Wilkerson said it would that--just putting his vision together with the "map" visions above.)

It is also notable that LAST SUNDAY's Prophecy update from Pastor JD at the Calvary Chapel in Hawaii was about earthquakes--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4s7T2OPdPg

It is interesting to note that, while he emphatically says he is "absolutely not" making a prediction, he does express his belief that "we are just one earthquake away from unspeakable devastation, the likes of which we have never seen."
 

Double_A

TB Fanatic
I put the following on a different forum about 6 months ago.
The past few weeks the "ground thunder" has really been bad again.

=====================================================

This may relate to all of the "ground thunder" we hear all the time.
Lots of people nearby have reported hearing it, so we're not just hearing crazy things. Sometimes we hear "popping" or "cracking" sounds coming from underground. At times we've thought it was maybe underground tunneling, but we're not so sure. This ground thunder or "booms" as we call it happens any hour of the day or night, doesn't matter if it's weekends or holidays. Sometimes it goes away for a week or two, then starts up again. It makes the neighbor's horses and cattle nervous as well.
Once in a great while we will feel a little tremor coming from a quake just North of Little Rock (Guy, AR), but not usually. Too many mountains between here and there.
We live in W AR, with the mountains and the Ouachita National Forest all around. VERY rocky area, I've got a rock partially exposed in my backyard, we can only see the top of it, and it's about the size of a Volkswagon. But it pops up here and there, doing a large basement around my yard would probably be impossible, unless blasting of this rock was involved. And if you follow my backyard down to the creek, in places this rocky area goes completely under the water and is the base of the creek. It covers an exposed area about the size of a basketball court. I told you all that in this paragraph as it makes the area where my house is built seem very stable. At least it should......
Last fall we noticed something odd in the hallway of our house. Their was a large gap between the wall and the ceiling, running about 15 feet down the hall. It was easy to see as there is corner moulding between the wall and the ceiling. The gap started out (or when we first noticed it) about 1/4" wide, but grew to over an inch in a couple month's time. It was alarming and distressing to say the least. I was in new home construction for years, and this house is only 28 years old and well built. One morning a month or so later I called my wife in there to show her something shocking - the gap was gone. The ceiling was now down on top of the wall so level, the the crack was even barely noticable.
All summer there was no change. And the booms almost seemed to stop. Well the booms started up pretty bad a couple weeks ago, darn near the same time that the quakes were being reported in Oklahoma. And last night I noticed - the crack is back, about 3/8" this time. However, now there is also a gap in my son's room and our master bedroom, and my wife is reporting "cracking sounds" in the wood (or something) in the opposite corner of our living room.
We are not alone in this, as the neighbors across the road have reported recent cracks in the blockwork of their home. And one homeowner in a town about 12 miles South of us reported the tremors, and that the water pipes outside her home keep getting pulled apart.

But.....this is not the most alarming part.

The ground outside is slowly moving. We started noticing this a few years ago, at first I wasn't sure if I was seeing things, but now I'm positive I'm not. It has moved WAY too much. The neighbor didn't notice it at first either, but now he sure has. What it appears to be doing actually, is sinking in places. Our lawn goes back about 175' behind our house, then we have a barbwire fence seperating a small field (large blackberry patch) before it hits a dirt ledge and drops down to the creek. The field always had a little downward pitch to it, before it dropped sharply down to the creek.
Our neighbor every couple years does us a favor and brush-hogs the berry patch down to ground level, as it kills off the small trees that pop up and is better for the berries to cut them back. When he did it a month ago and I walked back there, my jaw about hit the dirt. In the 160 feet or so from the barbwire to the ledge, the land has gone down at least SIX FEET. My neighbor almost rolled his tractor there, and he told me he didn't 'remember' it pitching like that. Well yeah. And it has sunk to the North and South of the house, though not as much. He noticed it on the North side last fall, when he backed his tractor up from setting off large bales of hay like he's done for years, and thought he sunk into the ground. I saw him get off the tractor, look at the ground and scratch his head. He also was looking at a large grandfather oak that is now leaning over at a bad angle.
I don't know what the heck is going on. In certain areas it could be underground tunneling, and the "booms" could be blasting the rock. But we are obviously VERY concerned. We moved here over 7 years ago, and if we compare some pics I took of the area from where we first bought here to recent pics of how the elevations have changed, whoa.
We had homeowners insurance thru Allstate, but we switched when we were told that they were dropping earthquake coverage. So at least we have coverage for that.
This is just so far out of the normal range of "stuff happens," that I'm at a loss.

And about a year and a half ago, our security light was out on the pole, about a 75' run from our main power pole. The elec. co. that maintains them came out to fix it, and he showed me that for some reason the ground between the poles swelled and bent the poles opposite of each other, and actually pulled the arial wires out of the connectors by stretching it taught, and that's why the light was out. He couldn't figure it out.
Since then that part of the ground returned to normal, and the arial wires aren't tight.

OK, I get that the ground can sink in places sometimes. Not hard to wrap my head around that.

But the fact that something tweaks my dang house, then tweaks it BACK is what is warping my mind. It moved the power poles out, stretched the wires taught - then went back.

WTF?

And it's *not* a humidity thing inside my house. The wall where the crack shows up is in the center of the home - a load-bearing wall.



YIKES!

I live in Earthquake country between the San Andreas, Hayward & Calaveras faults If I had that crap happening at my place I'd be real damm worried. WE do have a few places out here like that. One location is Cal Berkeley's stadium it's being pulled apart the Haward fault passes right under it. Also Hollister Calif there are many places were homes and streets are moving, in different directions! But I'd be very concerned if that was my place. Take care and exercise all earthquake precautions.
 

Border guard

Inactive
It seems nobody has a good handle on what this phenomena is or those that do know aren't telling - could cause mass panic. - BG

http://endoftheamericandream.com/ar...ses-in-the-sky-being-heard-all-over-the-world

What Is Causing The Strange Noises In The Sky That Are Being Heard All Over The World?


During the second half of 2011, a lot of people all over the planet started reporting hearing really strange noises coming from the sky. In some instances the noises produced a loud rumbling such as a train, a thunderstorm or the slamming of a heavy door would make. In other instances, the noises sounded more like "groaning". In yet other instances the noises sounded almost as if a trumpet was playing. Dozens of videos went up on YouTube purporting to document this phenomenon, but the truth is that you can fake almost anything on a YouTube video and many dismissed these strange "strange sounds" as an Internet hoax. However, now entire towns in the northern part of the United States are hearing strange noises in the sky and the mainstream media is reporting on it. In fact, one U.S. town is planning to spend thousands of dollars to hire an engineering firm to investigate where these strange sounds are coming from. At this point a lot of theories about these strange noises are being floated, but so far scientists have not been able to give us a definitive explanation for the source of these strange noises. So exactly what in the world is going on?
This phenomenon made national news again this week because of what has been going on in Clintonville, Wisconsin. Hundreds of residents of Clintonville reported hearing incredibly loud noises coming from the sky for several nights in a row. Even CBS News is reporting on what is happening in Clintonville....
Since Sunday, the residents have been disturbed by "booming" noises loud enough to wake them from their sleep.
Last night, hundreds of people attended a public meeting to get to the bottom of booms. But they aren't any closer to the truth.
One resident told CBS News, "The last few days we've been having (a) booming shaking noise."
Another resident said, "(For) a lot of people the house is rattling, you can feel the ground rattling, and it's booming all the time. It's kind of like, what's going on? You don't know what's happening."
So what is causing these noises that are so loud that even the ground is shaking?
According to Fox News, the town has investigated every possible explanation that they can think of for these strange noises....
City officials say they have investigated every possible human cause. They checked water, sewer and gas lines, contacted the military about any exercises in the area, reviewed permits for mining explosives and inspected a dam next to City Hall. They even tested methane levels at the landfill in case the gas was spontaneously exploding.
So far no explanation has been found. So Clintonville has decided to spend $7,000 to hire an engineering firm to investigate the cause of these strange noises.
According to geologists, the town does not sit on any fault lines and the ground beneath the town is very solid. Some geologists are claiming that "micro-quakes" could have been responsible, but others find this explanation to be very unsatisfying.
For many town residents, solving the mystery is not as important as getting these strange noises to stop so that they can get some sleep.
The following comes from the recent Fox News article mentioned above....
"My husband thought it was cool, but I don't think so. This is not a joke," said Jolene Van Beek, who awoke early Sunday to a loud boom that shook her house. "I don't know what it is, but I just want it to stop."
But Clintonville is not the only town in Wisconsin where strange sounds are being reported.
Mysterious noises are also being reported in a town called Montello which is 80 miles away from Clintonville.
Posted below is a local news report that discusses the strange noises that are being reported in Clintonville and Montello....
These strange sounds have made the mainstream news up in Canada as well.
Recently, strange noises caused such a violent shaking that they actually brought down a barn on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Geologists say that no earthquake occurred at the time that the barn collapsed.
So what caused the barn to collapse?
That is a very good question.
And this is not just a North American phenomenon.
If you go on to YouTube and you do a search for "strange sounds" or "strange noises" you will find dozens of videos from all over the world. Yes, there are definitely a few videos that appear to be hoaxes, but is that true with all of them?
The evidence for this phenomenon is mounting and it is getting really hard to deny that there really are large numbers people all over the globe that swear that they are hearing really strange sounds coming from the sky.
So exactly what in the world is going on?
Well, there are a lot of theories floating around on the Internet. The following are some of the most prominent theories about what is causing these strange noises: electromagnetic noise, earthquakes, "fracking", rock bursts, venting of high-pressure gas that has been trapped underground, meteor showers, HAARP or directed energy weapons, and some believe that all of this is just a giant publicity stunt.
Perhaps the biggest reason why these strange noises have so many people alarmed is because humans generally have a great fear of the unknown.
If the cause of these strange noises is revealed, the hysteria will die down.
But if these strange noises continue (or even become more intense) and there continues to be no scientific explanation for them, then the hysteria may turn into full-blown panic.
What is clear is that our planet is becoming increasingly unstable. As I have documented previously, earthquakes are becoming more frequent and more powerful. The "Ring of Fire" is becoming a lot more active and we have been seeing a disturbing amount of volcanic activity lately.
So could earth changes have anything to do with these strange noises?
We just don't know at this point.
Most of the time when I write an article I like to have some answers. But I do not know what is causing these strange sounds.
So what do you think about these strange noises?
Do you believe that you know why they are happening?
Have you heard strange sounds coming from the sky where you live?
Please feel free to share your thoughts by leaving a comment below....
 

NBCsurvivor

Has No Life - Lives on TB
The booms, according to my contacts from VaTech, are the pressures building up on the plates. The small quakes that accompany them are the smaller faults slipping a bit and adding their stresses on the main faults.

And we have been having booms and moans tonight here. Just had one about 4 minutes before I typed this.

Something is up. I had a feeling that we would "have to pay" for all of those solar blasts hitting us.

Time will tell.

Loup

The Officialdom is grasping at straws at this point with their statements suggesting that this was/is caused by some little 1.something EQs'.

I have a feeling this is not going to end well. Too much going on all in a very short time frame. MUCH of it seems to be HIGHLY connected.
 

Countrymouse

Country exile in the city
I put the following on a different forum about 6 months ago.
The past few weeks the "ground thunder" has really been bad again.

=====================================================

This may relate to all of the "ground thunder" we hear all the time.
Lots of people nearby have reported hearing it, so we're not just hearing crazy things. Sometimes we hear "popping" or "cracking" sounds coming from underground. At times we've thought it was maybe underground tunneling, but we're not so sure. This ground thunder or "booms" as we call it happens any hour of the day or night, doesn't matter if it's weekends or holidays. Sometimes it goes away for a week or two, then starts up again. It makes the neighbor's horses and cattle nervous as well.
Once in a great while we will feel a little tremor coming from a quake just North of Little Rock (Guy, AR), but not usually. Too many mountains between here and there.
We live in W AR, with the mountains and the Ouachita National Forest all around. VERY rocky area, I've got a rock partially exposed in my backyard, we can only see the top of it, and it's about the size of a Volkswagon. But it pops up here and there, doing a large basement around my yard would probably be impossible, unless blasting of this rock was involved. And if you follow my backyard down to the creek, in places this rocky area goes completely under the water and is the base of the creek. It covers an exposed area about the size of a basketball court. I told you all that in this paragraph as it makes the area where my house is built seem very stable. At least it should......
Last fall we noticed something odd in the hallway of our house. Their was a large gap between the wall and the ceiling, running about 15 feet down the hall. It was easy to see as there is corner moulding between the wall and the ceiling. The gap started out (or when we first noticed it) about 1/4" wide, but grew to over an inch in a couple month's time. It was alarming and distressing to say the least. I was in new home construction for years, and this house is only 28 years old and well built. One morning a month or so later I called my wife in there to show her something shocking - the gap was gone. The ceiling was now down on top of the wall so level, the the crack was even barely noticable.
All summer there was no change. And the booms almost seemed to stop. Well the booms started up pretty bad a couple weeks ago, darn near the same time that the quakes were being reported in Oklahoma. And last night I noticed - the crack is back, about 3/8" this time. However, now there is also a gap in my son's room and our master bedroom, and my wife is reporting "cracking sounds" in the wood (or something) in the opposite corner of our living room.
We are not alone in this, as the neighbors across the road have reported recent cracks in the blockwork of their home. And one homeowner in a town about 12 miles South of us reported the tremors, and that the water pipes outside her home keep getting pulled apart.

But.....this is not the most alarming part.

The ground outside is slowly moving. We started noticing this a few years ago, at first I wasn't sure if I was seeing things, but now I'm positive I'm not. It has moved WAY too much. The neighbor didn't notice it at first either, but now he sure has. What it appears to be doing actually, is sinking in places. Our lawn goes back about 175' behind our house, then we have a barbwire fence seperating a small field (large blackberry patch) before it hits a dirt ledge and drops down to the creek. The field always had a little downward pitch to it, before it dropped sharply down to the creek.
Our neighbor every couple years does us a favor and brush-hogs the berry patch down to ground level, as it kills off the small trees that pop up and is better for the berries to cut them back. When he did it a month ago and I walked back there, my jaw about hit the dirt. In the 160 feet or so from the barbwire to the ledge, the land has gone down at least SIX FEET. My neighbor almost rolled his tractor there, and he told me he didn't 'remember' it pitching like that. Well yeah. And it has sunk to the North and South of the house, though not as much. He noticed it on the North side last fall, when he backed his tractor up from setting off large bales of hay like he's done for years, and thought he sunk into the ground. I saw him get off the tractor, look at the ground and scratch his head. He also was looking at a large grandfather oak that is now leaning over at a bad angle.
I don't know what the heck is going on. In certain areas it could be underground tunneling, and the "booms" could be blasting the rock. But we are obviously VERY concerned. We moved here over 7 years ago, and if we compare some pics I took of the area from where we first bought here to recent pics of how the elevations have changed, whoa.
We had homeowners insurance thru Allstate, but we switched when we were told that they were dropping earthquake coverage. So at least we have coverage for that.
This is just so far out of the normal range of "stuff happens," that I'm at a loss.

And about a year and a half ago, our security light was out on the pole, about a 75' run from our main power pole. The elec. co. that maintains them came out to fix it, and he showed me that for some reason the ground between the poles swelled and bent the poles opposite of each other, and actually pulled the arial wires out of the connectors by stretching it taught, and that's why the light was out. He couldn't figure it out.
Since then that part of the ground returned to normal, and the arial wires aren't tight.

OK, I get that the ground can sink in places sometimes. Not hard to wrap my head around that.

But the fact that something tweaks my dang house, then tweaks it BACK is what is warping my mind. It moved the power poles out, stretched the wires taught - then went back.

WTF?

And it's *not* a humidity thing inside my house. The wall where the crack shows up is in the center of the home - a load-bearing wall.

I hate to say this, but if I were you, I'd move.
 

Milk-maid

Girls with Guns Member
Many visionaries over many years have predicted that the Great Lakes would empty. They never give the cause of what starts it, but there are maps out here showing the whole basin of the Great Lakes looking smaller and the middle of the country dividing because of water from the Great Lakes.

Edgar Cayce's organization put out a map showing the USA after the earth changes and so did.... Oh I can't think of his name... A little help here... Anybody? Beuhler?
 

Tckaija

One generation behind...
Well guys I guess I'll throw in my 'little bit' to help goose the paranoia along...

Clintonville WI is [roughly] 60 miles to the west of the escarpment.

Montello WI is [roughly] 60 miles west as well.

Clintonville is about 80 miles north by northeast of Montello...

About 30 miles south of Clintonville is a river called the 'Wolf River'....

Last night my son and I were talking about this whole situation...

A co-worker of his lives along the Wolf... He said the river has risen about 2 feet over the last day or so... We've had no rain and not much rain to the north of his location. This co-worker was saying... "must be an underground Glacier melting and releasing water"

Uh... Don't think so... but the question I have is: Wheres this water coming from? Could we be getting some sort of 'bulge' starting up thats squeezing the aquifer from below ? Again I doubt it... if its something like that there should be reports of water burst outs from somewhere... The Wolf is a [big] river (relatively) and to get that sort of level raising you'd need a lot of extra influx...

Anyway, just putting out another 'dot'...
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
Tckaija, don't forget that Clintonville residents reported that their normally tepid water was getting extremely cold and then back to tepid, back to cold. Connected? Sounds like it could be.


ETA: I just wanted to add that when I live in Fond du Lac back in the 90s, I don't remember the water being "tepid", but maybe it is up that way??
 

Reborn

Seeking Aslan's Country
If I understood the speaker at the press conference correctly, they can prove one definite earthquake at one specific time because they had access to 8 monitors at the time of that quake. They interpolate from that that there were other earthquakes, undetected by monitors - that there was actually a swarm of earthquakes, initially undetected because there was no close monitoring of the area around Clintonville when they happened.

EQ Swarms is more like it. I can buy the "booming" noises going on for several days due to quake(S) - as in more than one - but not just one.

Btw, we had a 2.9 roll (and that is exactly how it felt and what it did) through here several years ago. It was a beautiful day, no clouds but lots of blue sky with plenty of sunshine. Friend and I were visiting in the dining room after lunch and we both heard what sounded like distant thunder that was getting closer to us. As we started to wonder about the forecast, that wave of a quake hit the west side of our house and rolled like a regular wave from the west to the east. I could hear the floor and walls creaking. As it rolled under our feet we felt a slight "lift" and just as fast as it rolled in it rolled out. I've experienced several quakes here and the others (larger too) were all the typical shaking back and forth motion with no sound. I won't forget that 2.9 but the thunder noise only sounded while the quake was going on nearby us. After it went past we couldn't hear anything anymore but the birds.
 

Warm Wisconsin

Easy as 3.141592653589..
Well guys I guess I'll throw in my 'little bit' to help goose the paranoia along...

Clintonville WI is [roughly] 60 miles to the west of the escarpment.

Montello WI is [roughly] 60 miles west as well.


Clintonville is about 80 miles north by northeast of Montello...

About 30 miles south of Clintonville is a river called the 'Wolf River'....

Last night my son and I were talking about this whole situation...

A co-worker of his lives along the Wolf... He said the river has risen about 2 feet over the last day or so... We've had no rain and not much rain to the north of his location. This co-worker was saying... "must be an underground Glacier melting and releasing water"

Uh... Don't think so... but the question I have is: Wheres this water coming from? Could we be getting some sort of 'bulge' starting up thats squeezing the aquifer from below ? Again I doubt it... if its something like that there should be reports of water burst outs from somewhere... The Wolf is a [big] river (relatively) and to get that sort of level raising you'd need a lot of extra influx...

Anyway, just putting out another 'dot'...

Here is two links for the water levels on the Wolf River.

This is one for upstream of Clintonville.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?site_no=04074950

Here is the one for downsteam of Clintonville

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/wi/nwis/uv?site_no=04079000

The water is down upstream of the Clintonville area, and water is up downstream of Clintonville. I don't know the damn system and how the control it. This is just for fair use.
 

LoupGarou

Ancient Fuzzball
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Could we be getting some sort of 'bulge' starting up thats squeezing the aquifer from below ? Again I doubt it... if its something like that there should be reports of water burst outs from somewhere... The Wolf is a [big] river (relatively) and to get that sort of level raising you'd need a lot of extra influx...

Anyway, just putting out another 'dot'...

I could see that happening, I could also see magma directly entering the aquifers as it pushes through. This would explain the smells of sulfur and the temperature fluctuations.

I would still like to see what magnetometers and a ELF-LF receivers would be doing up there. I'm betting that there are some fluctuations and signals going on there. There are some small ones here, and they don't link to what the sun is doing, so something is going on somewhere.

IIRC, the last big one we had here happened two or three days AFTER either the new moon, or the full moon. I think others have as well. I am wondering if there is not a pattern to that as well.

Loup
 

LoupGarou

Ancient Fuzzball
The bigger question is: What if the Yellowstone Caldera is a LOT bigger than what everybody thinks it is?...

Loup
 

Warm Wisconsin

Easy as 3.141592653589..
Talked to a friend who fishes the Wolf at least once a week. He pays attention to temps, flows and levels closely. He says everything on the river is normal. The levels were to be expected and are not up a full two feet. The rise is due to spring run off from frost break.
 

WisconsinGardener

Loony Member
I don't want to take away from the good things everyone is saying here, but this was too funny not to share:

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packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Well guys I guess I'll throw in my 'little bit' to help goose the paranoia along...

Clintonville WI is [roughly] 60 miles to the west of the escarpment.

Montello WI is [roughly] 60 miles west as well.

Clintonville is about 80 miles north by northeast of Montello...

About 30 miles south of Clintonville is a river called the 'Wolf River'....

Last night my son and I were talking about this whole situation...

A co-worker of his lives along the Wolf... He said the river has risen about 2 feet over the last day or so... We've had no rain and not much rain to the north of his location. This co-worker was saying... "must be an underground Glacier melting and releasing water"

Uh... Don't think so... but the question I have is: Wheres this water coming from? Could we be getting some sort of 'bulge' starting up thats squeezing the aquifer from below ? Again I doubt it... if its something like that there should be reports of water burst outs from somewhere... The Wolf is a [big] river (relatively) and to get that sort of level raising you'd need a lot of extra influx...

Anyway, just putting out another 'dot'...

actually you son's friend may not be all that far off. they are still trying to trace where all of the glacier melt is going up in the artic, some of it they traced to the atlantic, the rest they have no clue other than its going into an unknown aquifer somewhere.

I had a wiki page up the other day and it showed the life cycles of the great lakes, they have been much bigger in the past and much much smaller and have been growing the past 400 years or so. Why? Where is the water coming from? And when the lakes were smaller where did the water go?

K-
 

Lilbitsnana

On TB every waking moment
IIRC there is an "extinct" super volcano over the border in Canada not far from the UP. I'll have to go look that one up again.

K-

Well, not way up in Canada, but near the border on US side, these were posted about the island and lakes on the chicken bone lake thread:

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...-Lake....help-me-please&p=4149191#post4149191

On Isle Royale itself there are a number of inland lakes. (Including Chicken Bone Lake)

The great island itself is volcanic in origin, built up from lava which seeped from fissures in the earth. In fact, it is believed that the greenstone flow of lava which forms the backbone of the island is the largest volcanic flow ever known on earth.

The volcanic island was scoured by sheets of ice which moved across the island during glacial periods, creating the basis for the present day topological features.


http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...-Lake....help-me-please&p=4149222#post4149222

ETA: this explains some about the history of the lake levels, etc. (also from the CBL thread)

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/show...-Lake....help-me-please&p=4149281#post4149281
 
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Publius

On TB every waking moment
Wisconsin is almost opposite the side of the world of where an earth quake just took place today.
 
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